Poetic Light Installation

GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NYC

Poetic Light, a light and video installation located in a storefront within Grand Central Terminal, explored the possibility of creating a momentary pause for art within a hectic urban landscape. It was an attempt to make the path of the New York city commuter a bit more vital. The installation addresses the inherent contradiction of encountering poetry, which by its very nature is an intimate experience, in a 45 foot long glass enclosed public space within Grand Central Terminal. It was meant to be viewed up close as well as at a distance.

Active Voice
2016 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

Taking into consideration the particulars of time and place, architects today must engage in active conversations with communities to help give definition to their existence. Active Voice, a three-dimensional video installation at the Time Space Existence exhibition at the 2016 Venice Biennale, is a snapshot of one such conversation. A six-year dialogue produced a series of architectural projects that were integral to the creation of a charter school in a community in Staten Island, New York where the families of 86% of the students live below the poverty line.

Architectural Essence

2014 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

Buildings embody architectural essence when they are both situated and experiential. The spirit of our search to create architectural essence by embedding our art museum, Centro de Artes Nadir Afonso, within its locale, both temporally and spatially, is the focus of our architectural installation in the Time Space Existence exhibition at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Kigutu in Formation

2012 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

Kigutu in Formation was an environmental installation within the Traces of Centuries & Future Steps exhibition of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. Depicting our architectural teamwork with Village Health Works and the Kigutu community to rebuild their off-the-grid site after many years of overwhelming civil strife in Burundi, Africa, the installation portrayed the interwoven relationship between the East African cultural and natural landscapes in the context of aesthetics, sustainability, and societal advancement. Fabric wrapped cylinders intertwined with images and video enhanced by the urgent sound of African drumbeats created a collage of the collaboration that will craft this community.